If you’re a mom you know what it feels like to be sleep deprived. There’s nothing quite like being woken up every few hours by a tiny newborn who requires your full functioning and undivided attention throughout the night in order to sustain life. The challenging thing is not all little people learn how to […]
How I’m Making This Year Less About Doing and More About Being
It seems everywhere you turn this month people are talking about setting goals. And with the start of a new year it’s fitting really; parenting goals, exercise goals, dieting goals, financial goals – goals, goals, goals. Some people it seem really thrive from setting goals, while others become overwhelmed by the list they lay before […]
Who I Really Am
There’s nothing like doing something new to remind you of who you really are, on the inside. Today with my five and two-year old in toe I headed to the local softball fields, like we’ve done almost every Sunday this summer, to watch my husband play on his co-ed team. The team is pretty bad, […]
I Lost My Voice
As a senior in high school I got bronchitis. It was awful. Not only did I spend a week in bed with a fever and aches, missing out on activities, school and friends, I lost my voice. I remember trying to communicate, but nothing would come out. Important things could be said in a whisper, […]
Directionally Challenged
I have a very poor sense of direction. I can walk into one store in a shopping plaza or mall and be unable to remember which way I’m going when I come out, except to look at which stores I’ve already been in. Truth be told, in college I was headed home for a special […]
Opening Day
I’m not a baseball fan…yet. I say yet because my son was hitting baseballs even before he was potty trained (Video: https://youtu.be/AZb1F4GZHrE). By the age of 3 he was hitting them over the fence that marked our city plot. And now, at 5, he is playing on his first team. Something he has been waiting […]
Fear is Crippling
We moved exactly one month ago this weekend. March 7, to be exact. Although, it’s not very exact because we spent the entire week before hauling breakables in the van, and the entire week after schlepping the leftover crap that didn’t really fit into boxes (you know, the stuff in the garage and the embarrassing […]
No Worries
I think this is what carefree looks like. I took my daughter to the park today. She was content to be in the swing for nearly 25 minutes. (My triceps were getting sore from pushing her.) Hair blowing in the breeze, smile on her face, she was happy, just soaking it all in. She hadn’t […]
Newsprint and Obits
I have a long love of the printed word, specifically newsprint. You can read more about that here. But we don’t get the newspaper at our house. It’s a generational thing, I guess because you’d better believe when either my folks or my in-laws are in town there are newspapers here; they make sure of […]
Misplaced murals
Red is one of my favorite colors. It’s bright, expressive, full of energy, looks good on me and generally makes me feel happy. I even wore red shoes with my wedding dress! But there have been two occasions in my life when red hasn’t made me so happy. Once “it” happened when I was 5 […]